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A mother’s death, a dictator’s fall, a conspiracy unearthed.

The Memory of Evil

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    480 pages

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    9 May 2016

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Summary

Everything started from that day.

The memory of 31 August 1969 has been at the back of Commissario Michele Balistreri’s mind for over four decades. It was not only the day that preceded Colonel Muammar Gadaffi’s seizure of power in Balistreri’s birthplace of Libya, drastically altering his and his country’s destiny, but that on which his beloved mother Natalia fell to her death, and the resulting suicide verdict that Balistreri - now Head of Homicide in Rome - has always susp…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857389404
ISBN-10:0857389408
Author:Roberto Costantini, N.S. Thompson
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:riverrun
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:9 May 2016
Weight:336g
Dimensions:197mm x 132mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

Balistreri: one of the most fully realized protagonists in modern crime fiction. - Independent

Costantini has created a fascinating protagonist. - Guardian

Utterly compelling.

The action is nonstop and the tension unlimited.

Passionate portrayal of a corrupt and criminal Italy. - The Times

Sprawling, violent and beset by a tortured morality, this is a compelling vision of modern Italy. - Mail on Sunday

About The Author

Roberto Costantini

Roberto Costantini (Author)

Roberto Costantini was born in Tripoli in 1952. He is an engineer, a corporate consultant, and the director of Luiss Guido Carli in Rome, where he teaches the MBA program. The Memory of Evil is the third novel in his internationally acclaimed crime trilogy featuring Commissario Michele Balistreri, which was awarded the 2014 Scerbanenco award for best Noir of the New Century.

N S Thompson (Translator)

N S Thompson’s translations include Leonardo Sciascia’s Sicilian Uncles and Massimo Ciancimino and Francesco La Licata’s Don Vito: The Secret Life of the Mayor of the Corleonesi. He lives in Oxfordshire.

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